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Comment: Re:Traffic info (Score 2) 218

by Chninkel (#39288329) Attached to: Apple Switches (Mostly) To OpenStreetMap

Does OSM have traffic information as well?

Not that I know, but maybe there will be an app for that

Even if they have the major roads, does it have the arterial streets like Google does? I use that information extensively on my commute.

In general yes but YMMV. It depends on the region: main cities in Europe and US are pretty well mapped whereas little village may have only their main road drawn. It really depends on where the users/editors of OSM live or what their interest is.

BTW if your commute is not mapped, you can just map it yourself, it's like wikipedia, but for maps and without the deletionist plague.

Comment: Re:Free market for the win (Score 1) 644

by Chninkel (#38280050) Attached to: Will Firefox Lose Google Funding?

It's not quite the same, but it's close.

Interesting, I do all of this but for the theme. I use "good old" Firefox 2 theme instead.

Comment: Re:Why are they so sure? (Score 1) 85

by Chninkel (#38077464) Attached to: Experts 'Convinced' Duqu Work of Stuxnet Authors
They don't explain in TFA, but maybe they found new pieces of code in Duqu that (compared with stuxnet) are written in a very similar "spirit" although not being part of the original Stuxnet. Sometimes it's very obvious who wrote a piece of code just by the way he implements things that can be implemented in several different ways (I'm not talking about code indentation of course)
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"World's Most Relaxing Music" Composed 239

Posted by samzenpus
from the chill-out-faster dept.
Musical group Marconi Union and Lyz Cooper, the UK's leading therapeutic sound practitioner, have released what they claim is the world's most relaxing music. They contend that the calming effects of "Weightless" are not subjective but are based on scientific evidence. The music was found to cause brainwaves and heart rate to synchronize with the rhythm, reduce blood pressure and lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol. In fact, Scientists played the song to 40 women and found it to be 11% more effective at helping them relax than songs by Enya, Mozart and Coldplay. The eight-minute track is so effective at inducing sleep, motorists have now been warned they should not listen to it while driving.
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Belgian newspapers delisted on Google->

Submitted by D H NG
D H NG writes "After being ordered by the Belgian courts to "remove from its Google.be and Google.com sites, and in particular, cached links visible on Google Web and the Google News service, all articles, photographs and graphics of daily newspapers published in French and German by Belgian publishers", Google had removed all traces of the newspapers in question from all its search services. The newspapers, however, are crying foul, and alleged that it was done in retaliation for being sued for copyright violations."
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Belgian press deleted from Google

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "After a looong fight, Copiepresse (press copyright handler in Belgium) finally won against google, forbidding it to display extracts from belgian newspapers in google news and google cache. It won too well. Google implemented the judgement to the letter and deleted all Copiepress sites from its search engine.
http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/64660-google-dereference-presse-belge-moteur-recherche.htm"

Comment: Re:Windows "was" a competitor? (Score 2) 342

by Chninkel (#35604894) Attached to: How Mac OS X, 10 Today, Changed Apple's World

user unfriendly package management system

[citation needed]

As far as I'm concerned, I miss the package management system as soon as I'm using Windows. And I always install macport when using OSX ...

I'm pretty new to Linux, but I find the package management system very user-friendly. YMMV

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